LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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The Renaissance period
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The Victorian period
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The Neo-classical period
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -(1660-1788)-This period goes by the names “the Enlightenment, ” “the Age of Reason, ” and “the Neo-Classical Age.”-There was a great turning away from religion as primary way of life.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Europe and America, the Enlightenment coincided with the first half of the Neoclassical period. Beginning around 1750, it was a time when the influence of philosophical theory and political revolution had unprecedented international significance.
Detailed explanation-3: -Neoclassicism was so named because writers imitated the classical structures of the Romans and Greeks of ancient times. Between 1660 and 1798, writers created works that embraced logic and reason and eschewed the ideas of the Enlightenment.
Detailed explanation-4: -NEO-CLASSICAL AGE or AUGUSTAN AGE or THE AGE OF REASON [1700-1798] This age can further be divided into various sub groups: Subdivisions of the Age: The term Augustan age comes from the self-conscious imitation of the original Augustan writers-Virgil, Horace and other classical writers.
Detailed explanation-5: -Neoclassical art, also called Neoclassicism and Classicism, a widespread and influential movement in painting and the other visual arts that began in the 1760s, reached its height in the 1780s and ‘90s, and lasted until the 1840s and ‘50s.